Re:People suck at technical interviews (2014)
by SilasX on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:12PM
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On 1), I disagree -- if a genuinely senior engineer doesn't know of modulus (totally possible btw), then what they'll do is:
"Okay, let's assume I have some function that tells me whether something is divisible by p. [writes it while using that function] Now, how would I implement that function? Well, I'd search for some existing library function to do that, but if I can't, then here's how I would check divisibility ..."
That's because the senior dev knows how to break the problem into solvable pieces, even and especially where they don't already know the solution to each piece.
"Okay, let's assume I have some function that tells me whether something is divisible by p. [writes it while using that function] Now, how would I implement that function? Well, I'd search for some existing library function to do that, but if I can't, then here's how I would check divisibility ..."
That's because the senior dev knows how to break the problem into solvable pieces, even and especially where they don't already know the solution to each piece.